IBERGRID, 4th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference

10 May 2010

"Bridging the gap between European e-Science and Iberian America" is the theme of the conference to be held May 24-28, 2010, in Braga.

IBERGRID'2010 (http://www.ibergrid.eu/2010/) is the 4th edition of a series of Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conferences that started in 2007 under the framework of the bilateral agreement for science and technology signed between Portugal and Spain. IBERGRID’2010 aims to leverage the construction of a common Iberian Grid Infrastructure and to foster cooperation in the fields of grid computing and supercomputing.

The organization of the IBERGRID event includes an International Conference with several parallel Thematic Sessions (May 24th-27th), an HPC Workshop (May 27th afternoon), and a one-day Hands-on Tutorial (May 28th), for researchers in computational science and engineering. This tutorial, with hands-on sessions, addresses issues related to access different types of remote HPC facilities, from thin-node-distributed-memory clusters (such as Ranger at TACC), to fat-node-SMP clusters (Finis Terrae at CESGA, Galicia, with up to 1TB of shared RAM) and to CPU_GPU clusters. This latter topic will be covered by Paul Navratil from UT Austin, who will talk about CUDA and will access and use the Longhorn cluster at TACC, the largest visualization and data analysis GPU-cluster system in the world.